Web - Usability - Humor
Wednesday, January 30, 2002[11:21:08 PM]
Judge Orders God To Break Up Into Smaller Deities [theonion.com]: They left out the part about God embracing other gods' features like evergreen trees, and extending them with large, colored, blinking lights, and ornaments held on with paper clips.
[9:14:40 PM]
Heh, heh. CGI-RPC. What's the difference between a web page and ???-RPC? An RPC gives you back named variables. A web page gives you back a web page. So XML-RPC is pretty simple, and SOAP isn't as complicated as some other things around. But I gotta say, it's hard to get more simple than application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Ok, so there's no data typing. Strong data typing is what separates the programmers from the scripters; the people who release every three months, from the people who release several times a day. Heh, heh.
[6:52:41 PM]
One weird thing about the weblog story structure is that you're reading backwards. You're like Merlin in White's King Arthur story: say you've read part way through a weblog... you can remember the future, but you have no idea what happened in the past.
I can think of a few ways to hack at this, but the easiest thing to do seems to be to call it "art", and leave it alone.
The thing this suggests to me is that weblogs aren't "it". They will surely be used more widely -- perhaps pervasively -- in the future. But I suspect that some very large chunk of their current use is due to the difficulty of any other sort of web publishing. I want to put stuff on the web, and the only reasonable tool at hand is weblog software, so everything looks like a weblog.
The opportunities are tremendous now and for the next few years to build applications that solve problems we've been beating our heads against ever since we started using personal computers. Small teams, working in scripting languages at light-speed are going to do some awesome things. Go Userland!
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